Meanings
- rareChasmal (of or like a chasm).
Pray, Madam! let me have none of your chasmatical impertinence.
1760 June 14, The Monitor, or British Freeholder, number 256, page 15472 more examples
Of course Professor Johnson and all the other professional economists who have searched the pages of Henry George understand that there is a chasmatical difference between confiscating land, and confiscating the increase in the value of land.
1914, J. A. Demuth, “Professional Economists Versus Single Taxers”, in The Single Tax Review, volume 14, page 32Doesn't she assume at the same time, through this chasmatical return, her own emission from both the divine and ethical substances precisely through relieving the impossible contradiction from negative judgement?
2011, Hannes Charen, “Hegel Reading Antigone”, in Monatshefte, volume 103, number 4, page 505
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From Ancient Greek χασματικός (khasmatikós) + -al. By surface analysis, chasm + -atic + -al.
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